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  • O Life! thou art a galling load,
    Along a rough, a weary road,
    To wretches such as I!

    Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.32